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    Deceive the Paradox
    Deceive the Paradox
    Deceive the Paradox
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    Deceive the Paradox

    By Michael D. Britton

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    Ammon Waters is on the verge of a stunning breakthrough - the ability to travel through time. He's also on the verge of a breakdown - unable to distinguish reality from a pharmacological illusion. DECEIVE THE PARADOX explores one man's descent into the abyss of insanity as he uses the desperation caused by tragic loss to advance his science.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIntelligent Life Books
    Release dateJun 18, 2015
    ISBN9781310755903
    Deceive the Paradox
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    Michael D. Britton

    Michael D. Britton has been writing professionally for 25 years, including heading up marketing departments, working in huge private corporations, writing for government entities, supporting non-profit healthcare systems, sprinting with tiny tech start-ups, freelancing, and a producing TV news broadcasts in the 90s. His short fiction has received ten honorable mentions in the Writers of the Future contest, among other recognition; and his novels have advanced through multiple rounds of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in various years. His list of indie-published fiction titles exceeds 65 and keeps increasing. Learn more at www.michaeldbritton.com.

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      Book preview

      Deceive the Paradox - Michael D. Britton

      DECEIVE

      THE PARADOX

      A novella

      by

      Michael D. Britton

      * * * *

      Copyright 2015 by Michael D. Britton

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      CHAPTER ONE

      Ammon Waters climbed out of his black 2017 Smart Car and locked it with his remote. He adjusted his earpiece and kept talking as he looked both ways to cross the busy lunchtime thoroughfare of State Street in Salt Lake City.

      Jim, I’m really serious, he said, checking his watch. I’ve truly had a breakthrough this time.

      "You’ve traveled?"

      No, no – it’s not quite ready for that, yet. There’s one more heavy equation I need to work out, but the rest of the bones of the chronoporter are there – it’s all in place from an energy standpoint. I just need to put the meat on the bones and discover the way to actually control and pinpoint the temporal destination algorithm.

      Ammon checked his watch again. He didn’t want to be late for this lunch appointment. He was meeting the two most important people in his life.

      His two women.

      Emma, the love his life, and mother of their child. They’d met and married twenty-three years ago, back in 1999. And in 2001, along came Esther – the third member of this lunch party.

      Esther had just returned from a mission for the Church. Eighteen months of teaching and preaching and serving in far-off South Korea. They’d had a great homecoming dinner on Sunday – but there were too many people there to really get a good chance to talk. Today’s lunch was the first chance in a long time for them to sit down as a family and just chat.

      Today Emma would be walking over from her assignment at the Church Office Building, and Esther was driving up from Holladay where she had spent the morning with her boyfriend, who had just returned from a mission himself last month.

      Look, Jim, I gotta go – having lunch with my family. But I really want you to come by tonight if you can. There’s something I want to show you. I may not be able to narrow the temporal confinement yet, but last night I did it. I moved something.

      "Through time?"

      Through time. Inanimate matter, of course. Three grams of carbon.

      "Ha ha! Wow! Where did you send it?"

      That’s the problem. I thought I’d targeted it to two minutes in the future – but it didn’t show up for nearly three hours!

      "Incredible! Did you –"

      An alarm on Ammon’s mobile device interrupted the call.

      The alarm simply read, REACH IN YOUR POCKET

      I gotta go, Ammon said. I see my wife and daughter.

      Ammon hung up, but left his earpiece in. He waved to his wife, who stood across the street

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